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Born April 1, 1929 • Brno • Czechoslovakia
Died July 11, 2023 (aged 94) • Paris • France
Notable Works “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” • “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”

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Karel Čapek, 1938.
Karel Čapek
Czech writer
Ivan Klíma, 2009
Ivan Klíma
Czech author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Engraving of Miguel de Cervantes, shown with a mustache and beard, wearing a ruffled collar and cloak, based on works by Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma.
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Russian author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Italian writer and political leader
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Tibor Déry
Hungarian writer
Portrait of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore with long wavy hair and a full beard, wearing a simple robe and looking directly at the camera.
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Cankar, Ivan
Ivan Cankar
Slovene author

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